Stone's script makes towering mountains out of mysterious minutiae, confident that although we may not be able to classify the rocks, we will be able to map the terrain.

| Dec 7, 2022

The film benefits enormously from shrewd casting.

| Jan 28, 2020

Oliver Stone's Wall Street is exactly what I had hoped for -- a sensationally entertaining melodrama about greed and corruption in New York, a movie that evokes the power of big money so strongly that you can savor it on your tongue like Stilton and port.

| Dec 31, 2019

The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.

| Sep 18, 2007

Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.

| Sep 18, 2007

Stone's attack on the excesses of the Me Decade could easily be dubbed Mr. Smith Goes to Wall Street.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2007

Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its nave moralising.

| Jan 26, 2006

Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2003

Stone's most impressive achievement in this film is to allow all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.

| Jan 1, 2000

In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse.

| Jan 1, 2000